Our Story

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Our Story

We are a church family made up of imperfect people whose common ground is found in wanting to serve the Lord, each other, and the world.

The Gospel of John Sums up our mission well:

“Jesus became flesh and moved into the neighborhood.” Dwelling Place Roanoke desires to not just do church, but to move into the neighborhood, become the presence of God to the people and experience the transformational power of God.

Leadership

Leadership

Dwelling Place Roanoke Pastors

Dave & Joy Fuller

David is a graduate of Virginia Tech and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Joy is a graduate of Texas Christian University and is currently working on her Masters of Religion in Middle Eastern Studies. They have been married for 33 years and enjoy life with their 3 children and their spouses. They served for 10 years planting churches and ministries in various inner-cities in the United States. David then served as youth and missions pastor at a local church. During this time they started an international missions organizations, Answering the Call, whose focus was to come alongside people who were suffering in difficult situations due to conflict or persecution. After years of ministry, both domestic and foreign, David and Joy felt led to start a church in their own community. Their vision was a church family who loved one another well and would together live out Jesus’ mandate for the Church. Dwelling Place Roanoke began in the home of David and Joy in early 2012. Their passion is to see the Church rise to her full potential in Christ, praying as Paul did in Ephesians, “I pray that the eyes of our heart may be enlightened, so that we will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe….”

Our Leadership Team

Abbe and Jon Gudeman

Bill and Jane Jacobsen

Jon and Abbe have been happily married since 1993. They have three amazing children--Joshua, Lily, and Sophia. They have seen Gods love and healing in their own lives and have a passion to share His truth with others through relationships here in Virginia and overseas. They are so thankful for their Dwelling Place family.

Bill and Jane were married in 1984. They have two children Jake and Annie and a son in law, Cam Florin. The Jacobsens moved from Richmond in 2006, where they had lived for 20 years. They were very active in Third Church, an evangelical presbyterian church. Bill is a Vice President with Carilion and is the Administrator of Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital. Their friendship with the Fullers began in 2011 and they felt called to help David & Joy start Dwelling Place in early 2012. Both Jane and Bill love the Lord, serve at the church, and also in their Franklin County Community.

Lynne and Larry Florin

Dave and Martie Byrd

Larry and Lynne were high school sweethearts in New Jersey and were married and moved to Roanoke (where Lynne attended college) in 1982. They have two adult children, Cameron and Emma, and a beautiful new daughter-in-law, Annie. Larry is a self-employed entrepreneurial type and Lynne previously served on staff at two local churches before the Lord nudged them both to help launch a new church (Dwelling Place) with David and Joy in the living room of the Fuller’s home. Larry is the administrative partner (Lynne describes him as type A and herself as type C-) and both feel led to evangelism and loving on those outside of the church walls. They started and participate in a prayer and healing ministry called HomeBase that serves at FloydFest, a local music festival. soon...

We are transplanted New Englanders who love life in Roanoke! We have 5 mostly grown children and celebrated 25 years of marriage this year. We both love teaching God's word and love our DP family.

Worship Leaders

Jordan and Robin McLamb

Jordan and Robin have been married in 2012 and moved to Roanoke in 2013. Jordan is from Cary, North Carolina and Robin is from Toronto, Ontario. There is no greater power or profound mystery in the universe than God's love. God demonstrated his love in its fullest form for us on the cross. Our goal in corporate worship is to glimpse the depth of God's love and to offer a response to Him. It is more than music. It is more than words. It is more than prayer. It cannot be achieved by one person or one band. Rather, corporate revelation and response needs an entire creative and vulnerable church body - offering songs, words, and prayers together, as one. As leaders, Robin and Jordan are passionate about doing all they can think of to facilitate a corporate, creative, empowered, and vulnerable worshiping body.

IF YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT DWELLING PLACE WORSHIP OR WOULD LIKE TO ASK JORDAN OR ROBIN A QUESTION EMAIL THEM AT JORDANKMCLAMB@GMAIL.COM

Beliefs

Beliefs

Our beliefs

WE BELIEVE THERE IS ONE TRUE GOD WHO IS ETERNAL KING, CREATOR AND REDEEMER OF ALL THAT IS. HE IS PERFECTLY HOLY, JUST AND LOVING. HE HAS REVEALED HIMSELF TO BE ETERNALLY SELF-EXISTENT-ONE BEING IN THREE PERSONS: GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON, AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT. (COLOSSIANS 2:9-10)

WE BELIEVE GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE SENT HIS SON JESUS, NOT TO JUDGE THE WORLD, BUT THAT THE WORLD WOULD BE SAVED THROUGH HIM. (JOHN 3:16-17)

WE BELIEVE JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED FOR OUR SINS, DIED, WAS BURIED, RESURRECTED AND ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN AND IS ALIVE TODAY IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD THE FATHER AND HIS PEOPLE. (ACTS 2:32-33)

WE BELIEVE JESUS IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE (JOHN 14:6) AND TRUE AND COMPLETE SALVATION FOR MAN IS FOUND IN HIM ALONE. (ACTS 4:12)

WE BELIEVE IF WE CONFESS OUR SIN AND REPENT, JESUS IS FAITHFUL AND RIGHTEOUS TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS AND CLEANSE US FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS (1 JOHN 1:9) GIVING US NEW LIFE IN HIM. (2 CORINTHIANS 5:17)

WE BELIEVE UPON SALVATION JESUS FILLS US AND EMPOWERS US WITH HIS HOLY SPIRIT (ACTS 2:38)

WE BELIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT, CONVICTS, REGENERATES, JUSTIFIES, AND ADOPTS US AS WE ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD AS HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS. (JOHN 16:8-15)

WE BELIEVE OUR HOPE IS FOUND IN THE POWER OF THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS WHICH IS THE SAME POWER THAT NOW RESIDES IN US WHO BELIEVE. (EPHESIANS 2:18-23)

WE BELIEVE ALL SCRIPTURE IS INFALLIBLE, AUTHORITATIVE AND INSPIRED BY GOD AND IS PROFITABLE TO US FOR TEACHING, REPROOF, CORRECTION AND TRAINING IN RIGHTEOUSNESS. (2 TIMOTHY 3:16)

WE BELIEVE THAT THOSE WHO PUT THEIR FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS ARE ONE BODY IN HIM. (GALATIANS 3:26, 28)

WE BELIEVE THE CHURCH EXISTS TO CARRY ON THE MINISTRY OF JESUS CHRIST AND FURTHER ADVANCE HIS KINGDOM PREACHING AND LIVING THE GOOD NEWS OF GOD'S LOVE, DISCIPLE THE NATIONS, BAPTIZING AND TEACHING THEM TO LOVE AND OBEY GOD. (MATTHEW 28:18-20)

WE BELIEVE IN THE UNITY OF BELIEVERS. IT IS OUR PRAYER THAT UNITY BE PERFECTED AMONG THE ENTIRE BODY OF CHRIST SUCH AS JESUS SPOKE OF IN JOHN 17:23, IN ORDER THAT THE WORLD MAY KNOW HE WAS SENT BY GOD AND THAT GOD LOVED THE WORLD EVEN AS HE LOVED HIS SON, JESUS.